[ senri needs majima's help and it's bad ]

[usogi]

this entire gifset is majima ok

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[usogi]

Just because sleeping alone makes me nervous here doesn't mean that I want to spend all day with that guy.

[and even then he tries to sneak in so his pseudo family barely even know he's gone. but,]

... well, we had a really nice cafeteria in our school too. I liked being able to eat with my friends, and see people first thing in the morning.

[he really is kind of a very lonely bunny]

[haw]

[ he can't exactly relate... which leads him to say, without really thinking about it too much, ]

I dunno, sounds like ya had it pretty good to me. Can't say I knew anythin' like that when I was your age. I was too busy bein' dumb an' thinkin' I was hot shit.

[usogi]

[senri perks up at the idea of majima storytime]

I can see that too, though. I don't think that one way or the other is really better - I'm just a commoner at a rich kid's school, so even if I'm grateful for the opportunity, sometimes I miss people with common sense...

[even taka can get swept up in the stupidity sometimes]

Majima-san at fifteen.... Will you tell me more about what you were like?

[it's okay if he doesn't but - senri's admittedly curious. it's easily read on his face.]

[haw]

[ it's at this point that majima pulls out a chair and takes a seat at the kitchen table. more out of habit than anything else, his hand goes to his pocket to take out a cigarette... but he thinks better of it. it's rude to smoke within your own home, in front of your family.

(ha.) ]

Not really much to say, honestly. Me an' my sworn brother were just punks who got in way over their heads. We went from bein' street urchins to joinin' the yakuza... an' it's all been downhill from there.

[usogi]

[ . . . oh. senri pauses at that, though he'll at least continue going through the motions of preparing his cereal for the morning.]

... do you think you'd want to do something else?

[24 is still young, he thinks, if there's another path that he wants to take]

You're pretty multi-talented....

[haw]

Don't really got much of a choice. My bro got locked up all by himself for some dumb shit that... that I shoulda been with him for.

[ he rests his hands on the table, folding them tensely enough to make his knuckles start to whiten. ]

I gotta get back in so that I can give him a proper homecomin' once he's out.

[usogi]

[ . . . . and senri will glance down at majima's hands, and his expression will fall into a slightly tired smile. he reaches out to place his hand over majima's, if only for a second.]

.... Shiks was playing the game for her partner. I thought it was really selfless of her, and I think that's true about Majima-san too, even if your bro isn't your wish.

[and he'll pull his hand back and offer a smile]

I think he'll be really happy to see you. I know I would be.

[haw]

[ he startles as senri touches him, because... he isn't all that used to physicality that isn't related to violence. it's weird. not unwelcome, to be honest, but... weird.

to try and deflect, he loosens up and leans back in the chair. ]

Tch, ya don't count. You're just happy to see me, period.

[usogi]

That's true.

[he agrees to that way too easily]

The teachers at my school are all pretty strange too - I don't really get anyone in the whole academy to be honest....

It's been a while since I had an adult that I thought I could rely on around.

[even though that adult is still. majima.]

I hope it isn't weird for you.

[haw]

... It's somethin', all right.

[ he doesn't want to outright say "you really shouldn't." ]

[usogi]

[senri moves on easily enough - ]

I think this whole place is "somethin'".

[and he'll match majima's tone for that..... before he seems to have another question]

Actually, Majima-san... I was wondering - how much do you know about Madopyon? I was really happy when I noticed that you care about her a lot....

[haw]

Careful. Ya start talkin' like me an' people'll start treatin' ya like me.

[ ... it makes him smirk, though, but that quickly fades into a more somber look. ]

We talked a lil' after what happened with Shiki-chan. She told me about her... bein' a magical girl an' shit.

[usogi]

[senri nods and

looks down at his cereal before taking a bite]

... me too. She's really open...

... and she told me her alignment too.

[haw]

I was hopin' to ask her, too.

[ looks at him. ]

What about you, Nito-kun?

[usogi]

[senri pauses and eats more of his cereal]

.... I can't tell you.

Because I'm trying to help someone, but if I lie to Majima-san, then that means I'd make Majima-san have to repeat my lie.

But if I tell Majima-san the truth, I'm scared I won't be able to help the person I want to help.

So I've been letting people believe what they want, and not telling anyone otherwise if they're wrong.

Sorry....

[haw]

Now I'm startin' to see why you're a natural actor.

[usogi]

I'm really good at what I do.

[and senri pauses and just moves his cereal around in the bowl, mouth falling into a flat line]

.... I want to ask for yours, but I know that's unfair.

Wanna trade for something else? I think I've learned a lot of really interesting things, and I want to be as helpful to the people I care about as possible.

[haw]

Ya don't need to.

[ hm? ]

I'm with Indulgence-han.

[usogi]

[senri is glad that he didn't take a bite of cereal because he would've choked and died]

You are?

But isn't he so much?

[haw]

Yeah, but I'm used to dealin' with people like him. Ya get all kinds of eccentrics at nightclubs durin' the real weird hours.

You've chatted him up?

[usogi]

Uh-huh. It was so hard.

[wheeze]

I had to make a bunch of delicious food? And then Uchiha stole a bunch of alcohol - and then I had to convince Uchiha to get dressed properly for the audience, which might be what actually got it to work?

We asked about the kind of world he wanted - but he also told us that different gods can do different favors more easily than others. Indulgence-san's specialty is making items at a lower cost than other gods. He taunted Uchiha with a bunch of shuriken, but he didn't take 'em....

[oh - ] That reminds me. If we have to strip again on Saturday [FROWNS AGGRESSIVELY] can Majima-san back me up that my bruises are from that? [he's been wearing long sleeves and a scarf all week since Monay, but he'll pull his sleeve back for Majima to see a bruise around his wrist that circles around like someone held on too tightly]

[haw]

[ ok that. was a lot? especially all at once like that! majima will address most of the infodump eventually, but he focuses on a singular thing for now... ]

The hell were you doin' visitin' him with that asshole?

[usogi]

We agreed on it last week already. I heard that Indulgence-san was hard to meet with, so I tried to get in touch with someone who had a lot of skills that could help me.

[so

emo ninja it was]

[haw]

Ya realize if ya weren't such a cagey bitch ya coulda just asked me.

[ HE SAYS THAT WITH AS MUCH CARE AS POSSIBLE ]

[usogi]

[he still looks like a kicked bunny]

I didn't know you wanted to go... or that you were with Indulgence-san...

[whine]

There are some gods I'm still trying to figure out how to see....